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Flow battery

Also called redox flow battery, vanadium flow battery, vanadium redox flow battery, VRFB, zinc-bromine flow battery

A battery that stores energy in liquid electrolytes held in external tanks and pumped through a cell stack. Energy and power can be sized separately, which suits long-duration grid storage, but energy density is low.

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